Twitter Celebrates Its 8th Birthday By Helping You Find Your #FirstTweet

Twitter Celebrates Its 8th Birthday By Helping You Find Your #FirstTweet

Today is Twitter’s 8th birthday – the service was launched on March 19th, 2006 (although it didn’t open fully to the public until July of that year), and to celebrate Twitter has launched a new tool to help you find your first-ever tweet. *

Simply visit First-tweets.com and enter your username (it should display automatically if you’re logged into Twitter) and your first tweet will load up. You can also enter the username of anyone else on Twitter to see their first tweet, too.

Here’s mine:

Twitter Celebrates Its 8th Birthday By Helping You Find Your #FirstTweet

Head on over to the Twitter Blog to join them in getting all teary-eyed about the past eight years.

In 2006, people began to say a little something on Twitter through 140-character bursts of plain text.

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